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Peanuts from hell

I like peanuts although it's not my favorite nut.

Now the peanuts that are used to pack audio gear in boxes are the peanuts from hell. Try unpacking your peanut-laden box outdoors in the wind and you have will have a real nightmare with them flying across the yard.

You really don't if you will have the peanut blues until you get inside the box and then you know it is peanut death when you see the little white/green boogers. All over the rug/carpet/floor they go. Try picking them up--real fun it is.

For all you peanut shippers out there, I now will request that when I buy audio gear from you I do not want the peanuts from hell. If you insist then we buyers will tar and peanut you. =8^)
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royy
148 posts
 
PEANUTS IS THE WORST PACKAGING MATERIAL PERIOD.
commcat
79 posts
 
Bought a very rare Receiver. The seller packed it in a box filled with peanuts. UPS managed to rip open the lower corner of the box and all of the peanuts spilled out. I received a smashed, crushed, totally destroyed Receiver. Pieces of metal and glass everywhere. Unbelievable. The seller refunded the purchase price when I asked how would it be possible for peanuts to provide structural support for delicate electronics in shipping. Peanuts were designed as a filler, not as the primary essential packaging.
philefreak
423 posts
 
Newspaper is the best packing material.
rodman99999
6,170 posts
 
Two boxes, with strategically placed foam rubber strips(glued) to act as a suspension between the boxes(spacing at least a couple inches all around the inner box). The item wrapped in bubble wrap. That's only if you care enough, and don't have the original packaging. Peanuts suck!!
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glory OP
1,614 posts
 
Cat,

Sending a package to UPS for shipping is like sending it to the Zoo. It will eventually get to the lion section and it will be destroyed.

I can see the UPS drive comming up the path with peanuts flying out of the box and leaving it on the outside of the front porch (as they do mine). As it sits there all day in the rain and wind you have peanut soup. Having a screened in porch (FL.) like I have, all the driver has to do is open the door and set it on the porch which is covered. Nope to difficult.
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